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willyagetacooki

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April 17th, 2008 23:00

Move utility partition?

I recenty installed Windows Vista without tampering with the utility/recovery partition.

However, when I start my computer it doesn't show the Dell text at the top where you can press ctrl + F11 to start recovery. Instead, it just boots right into Vista.

Here's a screenshot of the partitions: http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/715/screenshotep3.jpg

How would I go about fixing this?

Thanks!

 

  • Mary G

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    Posted April 18th, 2008 14:00

    Vista does not use F11 + Cntl. You have upgraded to Vista and now the XP partition is useless. You cannot go back to XP without a reformat and reinstall from disk. If you want to reinstall Vista, boot to the Vista dvd.
  • Rebel9

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    Posted April 18th, 2008 18:00

    "I just want it to be the way it was before"

     

    And as Mary explained to you, you CANNOT have it "the way it was before". You have installed Vista and doing this "breaks" the "factory restore" function. You have two options at this point:

    1) Try and fix the Ctrl + F11 function

    2) Boot with the Windows XP CD to reinstall XP.

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    Posted April 18th, 2008 18:00

    Yes I know that, I just want it to be the way it was before.